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In many circumstances, a shared key is needed to realize secure communication. Based on quantum mechanics principles, quantum key agreement (QKA) is a good method to establish a shared key by every party’s fair participation. In this paper, we propose a novel three-party QKA protocol, which is designed by using Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) states. To realize the protocol, the distributor of the GHZ states needs only one quantum communication with the other two parties, respectively, and everyone performs single-particle measurements simply. Then, we extend the three-party QKA protocol to arbitrary multiparty situation. At last, we discuss the security and fairness of the multiparty protocol. It shows that the new scheme is secure and fair to every participant.
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This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 61300181, 61272057, 61202434, 61170270, 61100203, 61121061 and 61201431), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 4122054) and Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (Grant Nos. YETP0475 and YETP0477).
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Xu, GB., Wen, QY., Gao, F. et al. Novel multiparty quantum key agreement protocol with GHZ states. Quantum Inf Process 13, 2587–2594 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-014-0816-9
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